
Anyone who has lived with me, or has been around me in "nature," already knows I'm afraid of any living thing with antenna, more than five legs, or flying abilities - and I'm not talking about any conventional kind of "fear" here. For example, one Sunday morning there was a spider in my bed, and I screamed like there was a crazy killer in my room, and frantically flipped over my king-size mattress, crying, sweating, and shaking, looking for what eventually came to be known as the Godfather Spider. When I did find him, my roommates had already left for church, and I couldn't squish him by myself. So I covered him with a cup and ran to the bathroom and threw up. That, my friends, is just one sad sad story. Similar stories can be told about ants and flies. But I'm trying to not let fear control my life... and in my attempts to be better I decided to make a list of bugs that don't fill me with anxiety. So here is a complete and accurate list of little crawly things I am not afraid of:
- those little rolly polly bugs
- ladybugs
- monarch butterflies
- grasshoppers